R.I.P. Margaret Thatcher

[beautywickedlover]

Posted: 4/8/13 at 10:47am

Former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher passed away after suffering a stroke. She did so much for the British government even though people did not always agree with her views and policies. R.I.P. Margaret.

http://news-briefs.ew.com/2013/04/08/margaret-thatcher-dies/





Updated On: 4/8/13 at 10:47 AM

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 4/8/13 at 10:55am

It's a shame. She saved America from the Russians and was more popular than American Idol.

[suestorm]

Posted: 4/8/13 at 10:58am

probably the most powerful women of the 2oth century

[SNAFU]

Posted: 4/8/13 at 11:00am

Someone tracked it in again, please wipe feet before entering!

Posted: 4/8/13 at 11:30am

It's a shame. She saved America from American Idol and was more popular than the Russians.

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 4/8/13 at 11:32am

Everybody's sad when somebody Meryl Street played dies. But at least she saved the Hawaiian idol from the Brady Americans and was more popular than The Partridge Family.

[strummergirl]

Posted: 4/8/13 at 11:49am

"She did so much for the British government even though people did not always agree with her beliefs."

Considering a few significant people died while disagreeing with her and that among the people who disagreed with her included South African anti-Apartheid forces and Nelson Mandela, it would be good of you to contextualize or reconsider the broadness of that statement.

[suestorm]

Posted: 4/8/13 at 11:51am

i wonder if anna wintour is next

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 4/8/13 at 11:53am

"it would be good of you to contextualize or reconsider the broadness of that statement."

As Ralph Wiggum said, "That's unpossible."

[strummergirl]

Posted: 4/8/13 at 11:57am

Well, definitely not in the next couple of days.

[TheatreDiva90016]

Posted: 4/8/13 at 12:04pm

'Well behaved women rarely make history"

RIP

[songanddanceman2]

Posted: 4/8/13 at 12:11pm

She was a strong lady who stuck to her guns but many here in the UK don't remember her in a favourable light. Much of her time in office saw the rich get richer and the working class left behind. The miners incident saw many loose jobs and homes and lets not forget section 28. I'm sad she has passed and I'm sympathetic towards her loved ones she has left behind but I won't forget the damage that was done (inc to members of my own family).

[Roscoe]

Posted: 4/8/13 at 12:19pm

Per Michelangelo Signorile:

The infamous Clause 28, enacted by Margaret Thatcher's government in 1988, stated that a local authority "shall not intentionally promote homosexuality or publish material with the intention of promoting homosexuality" or "promote the teaching in any maintained school of the acceptability of homosexuality as a pretended family relationship." It was 13 years before this wretched, homophobic law was repealed in all of Great Britain, in 2003.

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 4/8/13 at 1:17pm

Are you being a "Moaning Millie," songanddanceman? Stop it!

[songanddanceman2]

Posted: 4/8/13 at 1:20pm

Nope just been honest

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 4/8/13 at 1:22pm

[suestorm]

Posted: 4/8/13 at 1:22pm

Here in America, many of us will never forget her standing shoulder to shoulder with President Reagan, reminding the world that we are not simply carried along by the currents of history-we can shape them with moral conviction, unyielding courage and iron will." -President Obama on the death of former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher

AMEN BO!!

Updated On: 4/8/13 at 01:22 PM

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 4/8/13 at 1:27pm

"Here in America, many of us will never forget her standing shoulder to shoulder with President Reagan..."

Exactly. The Deadly Duo constructed the era of selfishness and elitism from which neither of our cultures has recovered. He said trees cause pollution. She said Nelson Mandela was a terrorist.

Stupid is as stupid does.

[suestorm]

Posted: 4/8/13 at 1:29pm

the dynamic duo that ended the cold war and made the world safe you mean

Updated On: 4/8/13 at 01:29 PM

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 4/8/13 at 1:31pm

No they didn't. Russia was collapsing but they didn't notice.

Thatcher let people die for her farcical invasion of the Faulklands while Reagan tried to talk her out of it. Your understanding of history lacks a the kind of perspective that perhaps only living through the era can bring.

[Kad]

Posted: 4/8/13 at 1:33pm

So the world is safe now?

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 4/8/13 at 1:34pm

Did you know Margaret was also a spy, and a French chef, and also a member of an Abba-like group?

[suestorm]

Posted: 4/8/13 at 1:34pm

So the world is safe now?

from nuclear Holocaust? much more so yes.

Updated On: 4/8/13 at 01:34 PM

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 4/8/13 at 1:35pm

Yeah. Okay. Moving on.

[suestorm]

Posted: 4/8/13 at 1:38pm

""Did you know Margaret was also a spy, and a French chef, and also a member of an Abba-like group?""

this isnt what this thread is about namo, theres another one for this silliness